Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

You are never to drive like that, ” I told them. “Even if you are ever wealthy enough to own a Jaguar.

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.